GOP Lawmaker Says Cheney Will Go to Hell

Anti-war lawmaker blames ex-VP for Iraq War

Rep. Walter Jones supported the Iraq War a decade ago. But the North Carolina Republican quickly turned on the military campaign and the occupation after. Along with former Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), Jones became a leading GOP critic of the George W. Bush administration on Iraq.

And Jones has a specific culprit in mind: former Vice President Dick Cheney. Jones said at a conference recently that Cheney would probably end up in hell for the Iraq War, Huffington Post reports.

"Congress will not hold anyone to blame. Lyndon Johnson's probably rotting in hell right now because of the Vietnam War, and he probably needs to move over for Dick Cheney," Jones said at a Young Americans for Liberty conference in Raleigh, N.C. The group is a spinoff from former Paul's 2008 presidential campaign.

It wasn't always this way for Jones. He voted for the Iraq War resolution and circulated a letter in 2003 to change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" in the House cafeterias. He has since regretted it and become a staunch opponent of the war.

"I knew that those who do not fight like myself, it's easy to be macho man, and declare war, get that son of a bitch ... I am so fed up with people who do not understand the pain of war," he said told the North Carolina audience.

Via Huffington Post.

Do you agree Jones about Cheney and the Iraq War?

[DapperDave]

Yeah, sounds like an accurate prophesy to me.

[InjusticeSucks]

But lets face it DICK could have never done his dastardly deeds...without the full support of the GOP.Then and Now they still love him to death,along with his Vice President G.W.B.

[PoliticalSpice]

@InjusticeSucks I am as anti-Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld as can be, but Dems too voted for the war. One reason obama is president instead of clinton is because she was pro war and refused to apoligize.

[drpeeper]

I find it comical , the leftists (not liberals) who whine about religion etc etc. Jump on this bandwagon like the lemmings they are. Comical.

[Russell797]

@PoliticalSpice Those who voted for the war did so under false pretences. They were deceived by poor intelligence from the CIA, with a very weak logical basis for WMD and the unquestioning resolve of the administration to go to war based on that flimsy evidence.

[Russell797]

@drpeeper It is the very lack of rational thinking which religion promotes that leads to outcomes born out of poor logic such as the Iraq War. Zero true evidence for WMD was somehow perceived to be a "slam dunk".

[PNWest]

Let him without sin................... no screw it, Cheney is so damn evil that if there is a hell he should be sitting in the front row.

[PNWest]

It was a joke guys.... I don't wish eternal damnation on anyone.

[Neo_NtheMatrix]

@PNWest - I'm glad you cleaned that remark up.

[PoliticalSpice]

@Neo_NtheMatrix Don't worry Neo, I wish eternal damnation of Bush, Cheney, Rusmsfeld, and every dem in congress that voted for the war, including Pelosi, for doing nothing to stop it when she became speaker.

[drpeeper]

@PoliticalSpice Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

oops.

[PoliticalSpice]

@drpeeper 2 Kings 19: 28 & 28.

[g4me]

Hell just froze over, I just agreed with something a Republican said.

[Denizen_Kate]

I think I just saw a flying pig. :)

[g4me]

@Denizen_Kate I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye, when I turned my head to look it was gone. ;)

[Ryuo]

What should the other politicians who voted for it get? Hell? Limbo? Hemorrhoids?

[Seneb]

Dunce hats

[Food4thoughts]

I vote hemorrhoids...

[vws]

A date with Hillary?

[jessejaymes]

@vws You really don't like those guys do you?

[marine1]

This just shows that democrats are not the only ones who eat their own.

[Clarke12]

so does Obama get a spot next to Cheney with the expansion of the Bush drone strike program? more attacks means more collateral damage (a.k.a. civilian death).

[Neo_NtheMatrix]

Yea, Cheney will go to hell for keeping America safe. I can just see that being something that deserves eternal damnation. Rep. Walter Jones is out of his mind. What a weirdo.

[hankf68]

A war criminal and murderer, but your god will let it slip because why, he's an American and everyone knows god only supports the good ol' USA, whatever, too bad there is no such place as a hell to punish his azz, do you even read the bible?...you religious fanatics are lost in space, somewhere in fantasy land...

[DARSB]

But, Neo, in fact the Bush/Cheney administration did NOT "keep us safe" - 9/11 happened during their first term.

[AceLuby]

@DARSB Funny how that is so easily forgotten... 4 dead Americans due to terrorism leads to a congressional hearing on what happened. 2,000 dead americans in NY city because of a terrorist attack and we praise the administration for 'keeping us safe'.

[CaryNickel]

@DARSB The 9/11 attacks were planned, and trained for, here in the U.S., during the Bill Clinton presidency. Seems ole' Bill was too busy with Monica to notice...

[CaryNickel]

@AceLuby When the Bush/Cheney administration had to pick up the slack for the malfeasance of the Clinton/Gore administration, yes, I DO praise Dubya, and Dick Cheney.

[frigginhell]

I won't pretend there's a hell just to make me feel better about Cheney's afterlife prospects. Waiting around for karma to get someone is how people keep getting away with things in life. Oh, they'll get their's eventually. You reap what you sow. Yada Yada Yada. It doesn't work that way. If people don't hold people accountable the universe isn't going to either. It really just doesn't care that much.

[Denizen_Kate]

Revenge is a dish best served cold, someone once said. I just love ice cream. ;)

[Food4thoughts]

Politix is doing a good job of portraying the GOP as a teenager with a cutting problem...:-/

[Food4thoughts]

Today that is..

[Dan_Tien]

Maybe Cheney will share some "freedom fries" with Rep. Walter Jones when they are sitting on the coals together. He voted for war, too.

[AceLuby]

They all did...

[tomincali]

i don't like the idea of us being the saviors of the world,and pushing what the un says is best for all.

as for judging cheney on him going to hell,that is not my call.

[DerivePI]

When you point your finger, you have three fingers pointing back. "And what have you done to earn yourself a long stay in Hell Mr Jones?"

[DapperDave]

Rumor has it Hell will soon begin admitting only politicians. Seems politicians are arriving at such a rapid pace there will soon be no room for other sinners.

[DapperDave]

Oh, politicians AND lawyers. Wouldn't want to leave out Shakespeare's favorite group.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

[hankf68]

Too bad there isn't a hell to punish the murdering war criminal, along with all his cronies and henchmen...

[DARSB]

Mr Cheney was part of an administration that knowingly lied our country into an unnecessary war. Hundreds of thousands lost their lives as a result. I don't believe there is a Hell, but I would like that taxpayer-funded heart transplant repaid - or repossessed.

[Realthinker]

My my. The fact is only God can accurately judge what is in a man's heart, and only God can decide who goes to hell. I can say for certain that the Day of Judgement is going to be very, very interesting.

[Drake_Burrwood]

Now the question is will he repent.

[Zazziness]

I remember those days too well. Congress reflected the nation -- they were insane with fear, anger and a self righteous lust for vengeance. Rumsfeld was assuring everyone it might take a few weeks or a few months to change the regime in Iraq -- "certainly not years." While I feel Cheney was guilty of misleading Congress about the degree of danger posed by Iraq, there is plenty of guilt to go around.

[shihtzuman]

Satan will bow down to Cheney

[Sonny]

This guy should have thought about that and had the backbone to say all of that---BEFORE he voted for that fake and illegal war.

[AlexMIA]

Cheney may be going to hell, but guess what Jones? You're a politician, you're going too! So have some dignity and act accordingly! Cheney and you will be going to the same prison. The difference is Cheney is going to be raping you!

[Yank]

Walter Jones supported it, he was caught up in post 9-11 ultra nationalism, and then he regretted it after it was too late. He may want Cheney and Johnson to leave a bit of room for him down there.

[AlexMIA]

@Yank Even if he wouldn't have supported it, point is a politician is a politician. There's probably a special place down there for him anyway.